People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

The light of God surrounds me The love of God enfolds me The power of God protects me The Presence of God watches over me Wherever I am God is.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

A man has to know his limitations.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.